The Author's POV

"Thank you."

Amanda replied with a soft smile as she heard Ren's words.

Directly coming out of her own match she was quite tired, however, thinking back at her own mother's situation, she quickly discarded all of her tiredness and chose to visit Ren.

Aside from the fact that she wanted to make sure he was okay, she also wanted to see if he could help her.

Amanda understood her situation well.

She knew that her mother's situation was dire, and she also knew that if she did nothing the problem wouldn't solve itself.

Instead of keeping the problem to herself, she took it upon herself to try asking for help, and the first person that came to her mind was Ren.

She did also think about asking Kevin, but she felt more comfortable asking Ren first.

Even though she was comfortably around Kevin, she felt more at peace when she was around Ren.

Furthermore, having talked to him, Amanda knew that he had just come back from the dwarven domain. She also knew that his relationship with them was good, and therefore, after carefully thinking things through she decided to ask him if he had a way to solve the mind-breaker curse.

Her hopes were low, but nevertheless, it wouldn't hurt asking.

Sitting down, placing both of her hands on her laps, Amanda took a good look at the place before her eyes suddenly paused on a small black cat sitting by the edge of the window.

"Pudding?"

She called out in surprise. A flood of memories suddenly flashed through her head as the surprise in her eyes grew only bigger.

'How is she here?' She thought at first, but after that, staring at her fluffy fur, her right hand instantly twitched as she had a sudden urge to pet her.

However, the moment Amanda's words faded, pudding's body suddenly twitched as the room froze for a second before a wry smile appeared on Ren's face.

Scratching the back of his head, Ren forced a laugh before scooching his body away from pudding.

"Haha, yes, it's pudding."

He turned his head to look away from her.

Amanda tilted her head once she saw this, but recalling the purpose of her visit, she stopped paying attention to pudding and cleared her throat.

"Keum…keum…"

Her soft coughs rang through the room, attracting Ren's attention. Sensing the shift in Amanda's mood, he sat up straight.

"What's wrong?"

Brushing her hair behind her ear, Amanda softly said.

"...Do you remember the conversation we were having back at the tournament stands?"

"Tournament stands?"

Placing his hand on his chin, a thoughtful look appeared on his face as he tried his best to recall the previous conversation he had with her.

As he was thinking, gazing at him from where she was sitting, Amanda took a good look at him.

'He's changed.'

had to say something, it was that the current Ren was a lot more

his facial features sharper and more chiseled out, but so was his body which previously used to be very

of her cheeks heated up forcing her to turn her

for long as Ren's loud voice echoed throughout every corner of the

something about your

quickly turned

herself, Amanda nodded her

"Yes."

something happen to

to ask before he raised his head and carefully

was here, but I don't see

smile at his actions. The way he was moving his head around to look for her mother was funny. After all, there was no one else but

was clearly overacting for nothing. But it was because of such things that she

for long as the smile soon wiped away from her

"...She's sick."

Following this, worry and

Leaning forward, he asked.

may ask, what happened to

herself

the bottom of her lips she took a deep breath before she started to recount to him everything

how she brought her to this strange place, to how she told her about the situation with her mother, and how she had saved the queen's life. As she spoke, she made sure

place, I saw my mother resting inside of a large capsule. Although she didn't

spoke, the heaviness in her chest slowly started to lift away as

heavy burden had been lifted away

if nothing is done, she will forever be trapped in the capsule, without any hope of ever waking up

her head lowered she had

fist, she softly

about my current situation and that I'm probably adding to your burdens, but I'm glad

bitter and sad smile soon appeared

she never placed much hope in Ren being able to have a solution to her problem, but even then, she wanted him to at least know her

her head up and preparing herself to leave, her

***

"This..."

was looking back at me, I

to her finding out that her mother was alive,

was such

was even more shocking was the fact that I didn't know of

regarding Amanda, one of the main characters of the story. 'Was it purposely left out by the entity?' I thought to myself as I tried to make heads or tails about

needed to take this matter into consideration. As far-fetched as it was, the possibility of it biting me in

that I suddenly recalled something important. Focusing my attention back towards Amanda who looked extremely down, I softly

a way to cure

"Huh?"

but the moment she processed those words she stood up in shock and looked at me with eyes filled with a mixture

"Really?"

voice filled

"Yes, I do."

curse. Thinking back to the past when I went to Immorra with Kevin to collect the cure, I would've never thought that I would have to use

there someone that was supposed to

to Immorra was to collect the Xurin fruits in order to heal someone from the mind-breaker curse. Was that someone Amanda's mother? ...If

ranked, and the timing perfectly coincided with the